Miami Transit Authority Backs Off Decision To Pull Anti-Muslim Ads

In Miami, Florida, the Miami-Dade County Transit Authority has backed off of its original decision to pull ten ads that were set to be placed on Miami buses by an organization known as Stop Islamization of America. Last Friday's Miami Herald reported that the Transit Authority decided to stop the ads after complaints from CAIR that the ads were offensive to Muslims. The ads, carrying a website address, read in part: "Fatwa on your head? Is your family or community threatening you? Leaving Islam? Got Questions? Get answers." A press release yesterday from the law offices of David Yerushalmi says that after a lawsuit was threatened, the Transit Authority agreed that it should not have prevented the ads from being run. It agreed to run the original ten ads and to also run twenty more at no additional cost.